Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders. How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Whites make up more than 75% of all professionals in higher education. More than 80% were white.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., an associate professor of educational leadership and research methodology at Florida Atlantic University, commends Dueñas for her innovation. Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. These are the institutions that can show you with their data, with their evidence-based practices and with their leadership what they’re doing,” says Santiago. and graduate 19%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

She is an assistant professor of educational administration in the College of Education and Human Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where her work is concentrated on campus climates and the role of student affairs in student experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). However, research has demonstrated a clear underrepresentation of minority community college trustees (Moltz, 2009) with no progress being made in hiring African American administrators (Levin, Walker et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Carrie Besnette Hauser “It’s a lesson for our students: surround yourself with good mentors who remember you uttering something to the universe, and be careful what you wish for, it could happen” says Hauser. She’s solidified the administration, faculty, and staff, which was previously prone to attrition. I love CMC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I MCT Scholars receive mentoring and professional development, as well as a stipend.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

In spring 2022, longtime athletics administrator Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes became the first full-time staff member in the 40-year history of the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC), which comprises HBCU institutions that compete in the NAIA. She aims to be the resource she wishes she’d had as a young athletic director.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Dozens of panel and plenary sessions were offered at this year’s meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) including a panel titled, “Historic Role of University Presidents in Shaping Racial Policies and Practice,” and keynotes by David Hogg and Jaclyn Corin, co-founders of the March for Our Lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 10, 2023

Across the years, Shalala has held numerous leadership positions, most recently as president of the University of Miami. In 2018, Diverse published a story about prominent scholars who were mentored by her. She has also held a tenured professorship at Columbia University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

With a strong succession plan, HBCUs can ensure a smooth transition of leadership, cultivate a pipeline of diverse and visionary leaders, and continue to fulfill their vital mission of empowering generations of students and advancing social justice. Succession planning is a collaborative effort involving university and community stakeholders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve. Prior to starting this position in April 2024, Salcedo spent two years as assistant director for administration of the Academic Advancement Program working with Alexander, who has directed AAP for over a decade.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

He spoke with us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast about his leadership style, expectations he's faced, lessons he's learning from the experience, and how future administrators might best prepare for this kind of leadership. And that's how I started to solidify my position to keep us moving forward."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

noted they received unfair treatment from school administrators. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

I requested to be removed under your leadership and from (the president’s advisory council) as this was causing significant attacks. In the days following her suicide, Moseley went on paid administrative leave while the school hired a a third party to review “potential personnel issues and concerns.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

in athletic administration from GSU, and an MBA from Kennesaw State University. Per the advice of a mentor, he picked being travel coordinator over academic adviser at GSU to get a better understanding of budgets and money and to have more doors in the sports world open to him. White holds a B.A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Rodriguez’s affinity for the work grew while studying at Sonoma State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice studies and a master’s degree in public administration. Now it’s not all doom and gloom,” he continues.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. Department of Education. They don't even like horses. That was formative.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Many believe, including college administrators, that students will come forward and self-identify and ask for help and support. Many participate in the Guardian Scholars Program (GSP), which offers foster youth wrap-around supports and a built-in peer and mentor community, all who share similar backgrounds. Dr. Royel M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Dr. Ruth M. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. I'm a first-generation student.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She joined us on the Weekly Wisdom Podcast to talk about the mindset of accepting new leadership challenges, the responsibilities of institutional leaders as employers, required skills for effective leadership, and navigating the small world of higher ed. My parents had high school degrees but didn't talk much about college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Conway-Turner, who will retire at the end of this academic year after nine years as president of Buffalo State, has had a stellar 43-year career as a faculty member and administrator. In addition, her administration has advanced civic engagement across campus with co-curricular activities and service learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Dr. Felecia Commodore is an associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University. Fries-Britt, her mentor, was at first reluctant to step into the role as she was just beginning her transition from administration to faculty. But if I don’t go, it’s noticeable.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

She began her presidency at JCSU following an impressive, nearly 30-year-long career as an educator, writer, and academic administrator, most recently as the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean and Professor of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Ellis describes Kinloch’s leadership style as “windows and mirrors.” “She

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EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

Blogs Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Here Are Four Tips Health care administration programs are increasingly attractive to both students and employers. Here are four components of a successful health care administration program—and profiles of five institutions succeeding in this market.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

He has also been a peer mentor in the Sloan Scholar program, helping students in different departments and cohorts connect with each other. On top of that, he mentors master’s degree students and undergraduates and has worked with high school and middle school students. You don’t always see that with students,” said Bostrom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. This program will feature time for faculty to learn from their mentors as well as professional development workshops, including one on grant-writing.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JULY 14, 2022

Leadership Advice to Start the New Academic Year. Higher Ed Leadership. For many of us in academic leadership, planning ahead is a constant feature of the job. Your institution was here before you assumed your current leadership position, and it will be here after you pass the torch to your successor. Inside Higher Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to experts in higher ed administrative diversity, the top two posts of minority serving institutions are routinely filled by people from minoritized backgrounds, but it remains vanishingly rare among PWIs. Experts and administrators agreed that a major problem is the lack of diverse candidates in the pipeline.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

applied behavior analysis, Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Endicott College; and postdoctoral fellow, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Career mentors: Dr. Caio Miguel, California State University, Sacramento, and Dr. Michael F. psychology, California State University, Sacramento; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

communication, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr. Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California; Dr. Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University; and Dr. Sue Zaeske, University of Wisconsin-Madison Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Enjoy every stage of your academic career. After she earned her Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. It was love at first sight. I love Black people – incontestably, this 40-year-old publication does and always has, too.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Approved proposals came from a wide range of departments and fields and included funding requests for ideas such as nutrition-themed exhibits, a peer leadership and mentorship program for international students, a study abroad program in Hawaii, and a diversity career panel series for students from marginalized communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

“It was like, ‘I gotta do this school thing so I can get a job and when there's time, I'll feed the creative part of my spirit.’” Livingston received his master’s degree in higher education administration from Columbia University, a second master's degree from Harvard University in learning and teaching, and his Ph.D.

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